"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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